FDA-P.515-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.515-2014
Object type
Identification
Title
Bishop Charles Richard Sumner
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length oil portrait of a male figure with fair/blond hair; black jacket, black clerical shirt, white neck tie
Comments
This canvas was cut down in 1971. Part of the original painted canvas, which shows the artist's signature and the date of the work, has been cut out and stapled to the back of the stretcher. Also, a painted inscription on the back of the canvas is partially cut off by the stretcher. These things indicate that the portrait was once considerably larger, but for some reason it was cut down in the past.
Notes on the sitter: Born 1790, entered Eton 1802; King's Scholar 1804; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1809. Appointed Chaplain and Librarian to George IV in 1820. Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Pauls, 1826. Bishop of Winchester, 1827. Died 1874.
Notes on the sitter: Born 1790, entered Eton 1802; King's Scholar 1804; Trinity College, Cambridge, 1809. Appointed Chaplain and Librarian to George IV in 1820. Bishop of Llandaff and Dean of St Pauls, 1826. Bishop of Winchester, 1827. Died 1874.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 745mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 882mm
width (frame): 752mm
width (sight size): 620mm
height (frame): 882mm
width (frame): 752mm
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved wood frame, (once gilt)
Production
Person
Offord, John James (Artist)
Date
1874
History and association
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p. 74)
• Sumner, G.H., Life of Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, London, 1876 (p. 376)
• Sumner, G.H., Life of Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, London, 1876 (p. 376)
